aery

And I will purge thy mortal grossness so,That thou shalt like an aery spirit go.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015

Once, during the Spanish civil war, an anticlerical mob tried to destroy the building, but for all its look of aery fantasy, they could not budge a stone or dislodge a single ornament.

From Time Magazine Archive

The room shared its aery with a broad, square veranda, trellised and vine-covered.

From Through stained glass by Chamberlain, George Agnew

As swift as lightning I do fly Amidst the aery welkin soon, And, in a minute's space, descry What things are done below the moon.

From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Here it comes flying through this aery round.

From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous

It’s only in the last several years that academic researchers have been leaving the university aeries and flocking to industry.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

Peregrine falcons sometimes use high-rise buildings as their aeries; ospreys can occupy man-made platforms to raise their chicks; and committees of vultures sometimes take over dumpsters, said Ms. McDonald, a 62-year-old U.S.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

Many of the cave interiors have been playfully reimagined; in some, ceilings have been knocked out, creating three-story aeries.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015

Governments should encourage people to live in modestly sized urban aeries instead of bribing home buyers into big suburban McMansions.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2011

On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Beginning, forebodingly, with an aeriest, which hinted at award show decadence, the dancer-acrobatics throughout the song closed in one Abel Tesfaye, heightening the tension in the song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2016